Window guard



Patented Dec. 21,` 1926.

unirse STATES- STANLEY vL. SELLERS, F I?HILAT XELPI-IJA, YENNSYLVANIA.

WINDOW GUARD.

Application filed November 24, 1924. Serial No. 752,026.

The principal objects of the present invention are, rst, to provide a Window guard'which can be readily manufactured on the job instead of at the shop whereby the cost of construction and fitting is reduced and a satisfactory lit insured; second, to simplify, cheapen and improve the operation of fastening the wire mesh to the support by which it is attached to or mounted on the Window jamb; third, to provide j flexibility of construction in the window guard whereby it is suited to convenient installation; and fourth, to provide window guards of Woven wire mesh which resist deformation or distortion and -which possess many desirable features and qualities of which some have been above referred to.

rlhe invention will be claimed at the end hereof but will be first described in connection with the embodiment of it chosen for illustration in the accompanying drawings forming part hereof and in which- YFigure 1 is a front view of a window guard embodying features of the invention and with a portion of the Woven chain-link wire mesh omitted.

2 is a transverse sectional view drawn to an enlarged scale and taken through the top spreader shown in Figure l.

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view drawn to an enlarged scale and taken through the bar shown as upright in Figure 1, and

Fig. 4, is an enlarged view of a portion of the structure shown in Figure l.

ln the drawings l, generally, indicates woven chain-link Wire mesh. 2 are bars arranged through the openings in the marginal Lliainlinks 3 ofthe mesh. 1t will be understood that the chain-link 8 of the mesh may be the marginal link of the mesh of stock size or may be any link of the mesh constituted a marginal link by the removal of other links. +L are spreaders interposed between the bars 2 and their purpose is to properly spread the mesh which may be put under some tension by forcing the bars 2 apart prior to the application of the spreadors. rEhe spreaders may pass through openings provided at the articulations of the chandinks of the mesh and the openings may be in the intermediate portions of the mesh or at its margins or edges. In lthe latter case each of the links may be out Where the size of the guard requires and be bent together or down onto the spreader f i, as shown in Fig. 2.

`Woven chain-link Wire mesh will not dis tort and from the foregoing description it is evident that it can be attached to the bars by which it is secured to place in the window guard readily and without the use of shop tools and on the job, and this is also true of the spreaders 4. The bars themselves and the spreaders are easily constructed and in making the `assembl it is easy to fit it to the required size or the opening. In brief the finished product is eflicient and its manufacture simple and comparatively inexpensive.

There are between'the spreaders and the bars surface Contact joints fixed in all directions. The particular species ofthese joints chosen for illustration in the drawing is a lap riveted joint, or, perhaps more accurately a lap bolted joint, but of course the well understood welded joint will suggest itself to those reading this description.

The described window guard constitutes a portable unit construction since the mesh is preliminarily spread and the bars and rods joined together before the structure is mounted for use.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which the invention relates that modiiications may be made in details of construction and arrangement and mere matters of form without departing from the spirit of the invention which is not limited as to those matters or otherwise than as the prior art and the appended claims may require.

I claim:

A window guard consisting of woven chain link wire mesh and constituting a portable unit construction, bars arranged through the openings provided in the marginal chain links of the mesh and arranged l in the direction of the wire rods of the mesh, and spreaders interposed between the bars `for primarily spreading the mesh and disposed crosswise of the direction of the rods of the mesh and said spreaders connected to the bars by mutual engagement, there being between said spreaders and said bars surface contact joints fixed in all directions.

STANLEY L. SELLERS, 

